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71. Abbreviations, Glossary and Bibliography [Books] [de Grazia books]
... ) and color (surface temperature) is the abscissa (determinant variable). This diagram is used extensively in astronomy to infer properties of stars whose distance makes direct measurement difficult or impossible. In terms of the HR diagram, ... the circle is divided into 360 degrees. The degree has 60 arc-minutes. Each minute consists of 60 arc-seconds. astronomical unit (AU) is the present value of the Earth-Sun distance. It is equal to 149.6 gigametres ... ) Encke, J. F. (1823), "Fortgesetzte Nachrucht über der Pons'schen Kometon," Sammlung astronomischer Abhandlungen Beobachtungen und Nachrichten, pp. 124-40 Epstein, Samuel & Taylor, Jr., Hugh P. ( ...
Terms matched: 3  -  Score: 1798  -  29 Mar 2004  -  URL: /online/pubs/books/degrazia/solar/ch-nx.htm
72. Jonathan Swift and the Moons of Mars [Journals] [Kronos]
... , R. de Witt Miller, touches upon the Swift-Hall issue by stating: "Where Jonathan Swift got the astronomy he included in his Gulliver's Travels is a problem."(8 ) Although Miller adds no pet theory of ... these "calculations" which earned Swift, the satirist, a place (albeit often just a footnote) in astronomical and other scientific texts. Swift's famous paragraph consists of a statement made by the hero of the voyages, Lemuel ... prediction" concerning the existence of the two moons of Mars, 150 years before they were actually discovered by an astronomer's telescope. Swift's "prediction" is to be found in the third chapter of the "Voyage to Laputa" ...
Terms matched: 3  -  Score: 1793  -  05 Mar 2003  -  URL: /online/pubs/journals/kronos/vol0804/017swift.htm
73. The Milky Way [Journals] [Aeon]
... conceptions surrounding the Milky Way the focal point of Maya religion and ritual: "It seems that the interaction of astronomy and mythology was common in other cultures as well...The Maya may have been using a way of ... the sub-lunary zone. (24) With reference to Aristotle's description of the whereabouts of the Milky Way, the astronomers Clube and Napier noted that the ancients' descriptions of the celestial band are frequently difficult to reconcile with the current ... this book was written by Philip of Opus. See also Diodorus II:30:3 ; Hyginus, Poetica Astronomica II.42; Ptolemy, Tetrabiblos II:2 :23 86. H. Hunger & D. Pingree ...
Terms matched: 3  -  Score: 1792  -  05 Mar 2003  -  URL: /online/pubs/journals/aeon/vol0404/039milky.htm
74. The Twenty-One Years of Venus [Journals] [Kronos]
... I can object that its logical meaning is incomprehensible. The astronomer Antonie Pannekoek, in writing her general History of Astronomy (original Dutch text, Amsterdam, 1951; English translation, New York, 1961), since she was ... occur in the land, the harvest of the land is successful. The contents of these entries indicate that the astronomers who recorded the irregular invisibilities of Venus were concerned with establishing whether they portended something ominous. Hence, they listed ... the subject did not appear until it was published posthumously by one of his pupils (in Scritti sulla storia della astronomia antica, Bologna, 1925-1927). Kugler took as his starting point a precise and unique element of the Venus ...
Terms matched: 3  -  Score: 1790  -  05 Mar 2003  -  URL: /online/pubs/journals/kronos/vol0703/036years.htm
75. The Polar Sun [Books]
... includes two themes which not only contradict the planet's visible appearance today, but seem to mock the canons of modern astronomy: Saturn, not the solar orb, was the authentic "sun" -god of ancient ritual. Throughout ... . But M. Jastrow, in an article entitled "Sun and Saturn," reports that in the Babylonian astronomical texts the identification of Shamash with Saturn is unequivocal: "the planet Saturn is Shamash," they boldly declare ... "Kronos-Helios," 343, R8. Bouché-Leclerq, L'Astrologie Grecque , 93, note 2. Hyginus, Poetica astronomica II, 42. This explanation is tentatively accepted by Bouché-Leclerq, op. cit., 93, note 2 ...
Terms matched: 3  -  Score: 1787  -  15 Nov 2001  -  URL: /online/pubs/books/saturn/ch-03.htm
76. Contributors [Journals] [Kronos]
... Contributors Z A. Firsoff (Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society); Mr. Firsoff has written widely on astronomy and other subjects, gemstones among them. He has a considerable knowledge of experimental facts in biology, chemistry, ... No. 2 (Winter 1980) Home | Issue Contents Contributors Z A. Firsoff (Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society); Mr. Firsoff has written widely on astronomy and other subjects, gemstones among them. He has ... Naval Observatory, Washington, D. C. In late spring 1979, he was Invited Guest Astronomer at the Astronomisches Rechen-lnstitut and Max Planck Institut fur Kernphysik in Heidelberg, West Germany. Dr. Van Flandern's principal research activities are ...
Terms matched: 3  -  Score: 1781  -  05 Mar 2003  -  URL: /online/pubs/journals/kronos/vol0502/iiicontr.htm
77. The Cornell Lecture: Sagan on A Wednesday [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... gave a lecture on "Venus and Velikovsky." Although the lecture was part of a freshman course on General Astronomy taught by Frank Drake, it was publicized in advance and persons not connected with the course attended. The following ... Sagan on A Wednesday (1 ) Lynn E. Rose In order to feel the depths of antagonism that some astronomers feel toward Velikovsky, let us examine a lecture by Carl Sagan, one of the leading expositors and popularizers of ... no unique solution that can be calculated: The data are insufficient. Sagan says that the biblically-specified interval and the astronomically-calculated interval "don't square at all." But there is no "specified" interval and there is no " ...
Terms matched: 3  -  Score: 1781  -  05 Mar 2003  -  URL: /online/pubs/journals/velikov/vol0103/cornell.htm
... to the celestial equator, and to Mars-Saturn conjunctions. The ideology underlying this extensive tradition was apparently derived from the astronomy apparent in the sky from the time of zero base-day (day of Creation) of the Long Count notation. ... God = God THE MAYA It is well known that the Maya were accomplished architects, artists, mathematicians, and astronomers, as skillful as any civilization of the day and more advanced than many. However, it is not often ... . These recurring catastrophes served to reinforce the vigilant monitoring, and recording of, the heavenly motions. The ancient astronomer-priests needed to know if the gods would ever come back. Immanuel Velikovsky was the first person I read that documented ...
Terms matched: 3  -  Score: 1779  -  04 Jan 2005  -  URL: /online/pubs/journals/aeon/vol0601/075maya.htm
79. News from the Internet [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... phenomena for invalid reasons. Theories linking comets and planets have been formulated over and over again throughout the history of astronomy. It was more than once suggested that planets could be potential comets or comets potential planets. In 1680 Cassini ... Mesopotamians has corroborated this statement to some extent. The ancient Babylonians, who can safely be identified as the first astronomers in world history, designated stars by their specific names prefixed with the Sumerian determinative MUL, star' or planet ... Rome, 1950: 105f. 4 F. X. Kugler, Sternkunde und Sterndienst in Babel; assyriologische, astronomische und astralmythologische Untersuchungen, Münster, 1907: II 89f. 5 J. Obsequens applies the word sidus to a ...
Terms matched: 3  -  Score: 1776  -  14 Jul 2007  -  URL: /online/pubs/journals/workshop/w2004no1/08internet.htm
80. The Venus Tablets: A Fresh Approach? [Journals] [Kronos]
... . Vaughan In an article entitled "The Venus Tablets: A Fresh Approach", Journal for the History of Astronomy, XIII (1982), pages 23-49, John D. Weir reviews previous studies of the so-called "Venus ... Waerden, LFS, Kugler, Schiaparelli, and Sayce) ever attempted, even for a moment, to make astronomical sense of the data as they stand. For more than a century now it has been the almost-universal practice to ... pages 371-378, 7. Jahrgang, Heft 2, pages 17-25. Schiaparelli, Giovanni. Scritti Sulla Storia della Astronomia Antica. Bologna: Nicola Zanichelli Editore, 1925-1927. 3 vols. Vol. I, pages 5-27, contains ...
Terms matched: 3  -  Score: 1774  -  05 Mar 2003  -  URL: /online/pubs/journals/kronos/vol1002/001venus.htm
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